Profile
George Sanders
Actor
Male
Born
Jul 3, 1906
Hometown
Tsarist Russia
Died
Apr 25, 1972
Death Place
Barcelona
Alma Mater
University of Man...
Other Names
George Henry Sanders
George Henry Sanders was a Russian-born English film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His prominent English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1906
Birth
Born on July 3, 1906.
TWENTIES
THIRTIES
1937
31 Years Old
Sanders' body was taken to England, a day of mourning was held, his body was cremated, and the ashes were scattered in the English Channel. David Niven wrote in his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon (1972), that in 1937 his friend George Sanders had predicted he would commit suicide when he was 65, and in his 50s, he appeared depressed since his wives had died or several tragedies had happened to him.
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1940
34 Years Old
On 27 October 1940, Sanders married Susan Larson; they divorced in 1949.
1942
36 Years Old
He also played the lead in both The Falcon and The Saint film series.In 1942, Sanders handed the Falcon role to his brother Tom, in The Falcon's Brother.
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1945
39 Years Old
Sanders played Lord Henry Wotton in the 1945 film version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
FORTIES
1950
44 Years Old
In 1950, Sanders drew his greatest popular and commercial success as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt, in All About Eve, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
1952
46 Years Old
He then starred as Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert in the 1952 film Ivanhoe, dying in a duel with Robert Taylor after professing his love for Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by Elizabeth Taylor.
1954
48 Years Old
From later that year until 1954, Sanders was married to Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (with whom he starred in the 1956 film Death of a Scoundrel after their divorce).
FIFTIES
1959
53 Years Old
On 10 February 1959, Sanders married actress Benita Hume, widow of actor Ronald Colman.
1965
59 Years Old
Sanders went into television with the successful series The George Sanders Mystery Theater. He played an upper-crust English villain, G. Emory Partridge, in the 1965 The Man From U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" and reprised the role later in that same year in "The Yukon Affair".
LATE ADULTHOOD
1966
60 Years Old
He also portrayed Mr. Freeze in two episodes of the live-action Batman TV series which were shown in February 1966.
In 1967, Sanders voiced the malevolent Shere Khan in the Walt Disney production of The Jungle Book.
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1970
64 Years Old
Sanders' last marriage was on 4 December 1970, to Magda Gabor, the elder sister of his second wife.
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One of Sanders' final screen roles was in a 1972 feature film version of the BBC television series Doomwatch.
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